Hovhannes

Hovhannes (Armenian: _hy. Հովհաննես) is an Armenian given name. Compare with Ioannes in Greek or Johannes in Latin.

People with the given name:
*Hovhannes Bagramyan (1897–1982), Soviet Armenian military commander and Marshal of the Soviet Union
*Hovhannes Tumanyan (1869–1923), Armenian poet and writer
*Hovhannes Shiraz (1915–1984), Armenian poet
*Hovhannes Mkrtchyan (born 1991), Armenian figure skater
*Hovhannes I of Ani, King of Ani (1020–1040)
*Hovhannes Katchaznouni (1868–1938), the first Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of Armenia
*Hovhannes Erznkatsi (c. 1250–1326), Armenian scholar
*Hovhannes, Catholicos of Armenia or John V the Historian, Catholicos of Armenia from 897 to 925
*Hovhannes Badalian (1924–2001), Armenian singer

ee also

*Alan Hovhaness
*List of Armenian Patriarchs of Jerusalem
*List of Armenian Patriarchs of Constantinople
*List of Armenian Catholicoi of Cilicia